Dechtice is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 of Trnava District

Trnava District

Trnava District is adistrict in the Trnava Region of western Slovakia.Until 1918, the district was mostly part of the Hungarian countyof Pozsony, apart from Bučany in the east which formed part of Nyitra County.-Municipalities:*Biely Kostol*Bíňovce...

 in the Trnava region

Trnava Region

The Trnava Region is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions.-Geography:It is located in the middlewest part of Slovakia and forms a territorial band between the Bratislava Region and the rest of Slovakia, between Austrian and Czech borders in the north and Hungarian border in the south...

 of Slovakia

Slovakia

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There is the Roman Catholic Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria from 1652 and the cemetery of All Saints Church of the 1172nd In the center of the chapel in 1743 dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Caramel. In the administrative area of the village are the ruins of the monastery and church of St. Catherine of Alexandria in 1618, and Mudrochov mill.
[edit] Apparitions of Mary

In Dechtice since 1994 some visionary allegedly appeared repeatedly Mary.In the Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava was 28 October 1998 established the Commission for examination of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Dechtice, since ecclesiastical authority of revelation examined.

By Dechtice there are pilgrimages to the "mountain of revelation"

This is translate from "Google translate" sorry for mistakes.

External links

• http://www.dechtice.sk
• http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
• http://www.fara.sk/dechtice/
• http://www.avemaria.sk/dechtice/
• http://www.katarinka.sk/
• http://www.planinka.sk/